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Employers are prohibited from taking actions against employees or applicants based on their social network postings.

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Employees of Bodega Inc. maintain a password-protected social media page to "vent about work." Bodega learns of the page and intimidates the network that operates it into revealing the password. After reviewing the posts, Bodega fires the participants. Most likely, this is

A) a violation of the Stored Communications Act.
B) within the employer's rights.
C) a subject for dispute resolution by the network.
D) a "business-extension exception" under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.

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Broadband Inc., an Internet service provider, supplies information to the Federal Trade Commission concerning possible unfair or deceptive ads originating in a foreign jurisdiction. Under federal law, Broadband is

State law may protect individuals from having to disclose their social media passwords to potential employers.

No court has held that it is legally acceptable for law enforcement to set up a phony social media account to catch a suspect.

Outsourcing Inc. registers a domain name that is the same as the trademark of Resourcing LLC and offers to sell the name to the mark's owner. This is

Cybersquatting occurs when the owner of a trademark registers the mark as a domain name but does not use it for that purpose.

Under the Communications Decency Act, Internet service providers are liable as publishers of defamatory statements that come from a third party.

Skye posts excerpts from comics and graphic novels on social networking sites without the permission of the owners of the copyrights to the illustrations and stories. This is

Under the federal law protecting trademarks, "bad faith intent" is one element of a claim of illegal cybersquatting.

Afford Motors LLC, an auto broker, uses the trademark of Ford Motor Corporation in a meta tag without Ford's permission. This is

InfoFree Inc. makes and sells devices and services for the circumvention of encryption software. Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, this is

Cybersquatting is legal when the person offering for sale a domain name that is the same as another's trademark intends to profit from the sale.

Jade transfers selected musical recordings, without the copyright owners' authorization, through her phone to her friends. Jade does not charge her friends for this "service." This is

Many states require the sender of an e-mail ad to tell recipients how to opt out of receiving future e-mail ads from the sender.

Federal law permits the sending of unsolicited commercial e-mail to randomly generated e-mail addresses.

Because of the loss of significant amounts of revenue as a result of unauthorized digital downloads, file-sharing has created problems for

Any party who gives information to the Federal Trade Commission concerning possible deceptive conduct in a foreign jurisdiction is immune from liability.

Downloading music into a computer's random access memory, or RAM, without authorization is copyright infringement.

To test computer security and conduct encryption research, Solutions Inc. circumvents the encryption software and other antipiracy protection of Tech Corporation's software. Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, this is